I’ve had the great pleasure of working with a wonderful student through the retraining process over the last year or so. By wonderful, I mean positive, curious, interested, engaged, intelligent, and spent her energy keeping diligent and careful notes on…

Recently I was involved in a fascinating exchange with a composer. I was working with a student on a piece that contained some frankly unplayable measures in the current form. Now, it’s one thing to nut out difficult writing: I’m…

I’m excited to share this account of a retraining journey. Like many students, A (she has asked to withhold her name) had experienced pain for some years. She came for occasional lessons, had problems solved, but took time before committing…

When first coming into contact with the Taubman work, people often struggle with the idea that it is okay to let go of long notes. I know I did. Of course we connect when possible (that is, when the hand…

There’s a special reason why I haven’t posted anything for a long while. His name is Zander, my beautiful first born, who joined the world on July 13 of this year. Before his arrival, a colleague asked me to write…

A nagging question I hear often as a Taubman teacher is around the length of the retraining process. The usual scenario is that a pianist brings to the process decades of habit, months if not years of pain, a good…

Huge thank you to Marina Alcolea for translating my article into French! http://pianoacoeur.com/lapproche-taubman-la-technique-du-piano/

Often, a pianist walks into my studio with a complicated diagnosis, and proceeds to give me a thorough rundown as to exactly which muscles and / or tendons are irritated. Meanwhile, I am observing how they use their hands and…

Increasingly, the internet or “Dr Google” is becoming the default go-to when we seek information. A colleague surmised recently that when we were children, we went to school to access the knowledge, which usually meant teachers or the library. Nowadays,…